You can build your own, and irradiate your friends.

My wife and I visited Warner Robins AFB one day, and coming out afterward, I wondered what was in a nearby hangar. Nobody was around, so I went over and tried the door, which was open. Inside was a pristine SR-71 that (it turned out) had just arrived the day before and wasn't on display yet. So I got to spend about a…

Wow - the snobbery in this article is breathtaking. I have a Cosmos LG that costs me sixteen bucks a month, and couldn't care less if some technorati elitist thinks it's déclassé. It does what I need it to do - it makes and receives phone calls. I think tech is great, but a smartphone would be a huge time sponge for…

Maybe they call 'em JELLYfish because that's what your knees turn into when you see one.

All in all, just another time-lapse video from the International Space Station. But this time, watch it as if it's a Barry White video, complete with narration: "Oh yeah, baby. I know you like the stars. There's somethin' about gazin' at that big black firmament that makes your toes curl. All right. There's a place…

Robert Sheckley was the poster boy for weird SF. Dimension of Miracles is perhaps the best example. What else can you say about a book where the protagonist is chased through multiple dimensions by his own person predator, eventually meeting god in the process.

Too bad there wasn't a little more about how many American lives have been saved while giving the bad guys their comeuppance. That was about as biased a piece of "reporting" as I've seen - basically Fox News in reverse. War is not fun, but any way we can get the job done without risking life and limb, the better.

Interesting article, but it ignores one very important fact: nature dictates that men - and many women - like to look at pretty girls. It has always been that way, and always will, and there is not a thing wrong with it. Pretending otherwise just ignores a universal truth.

The main reason we had the kinds of entertainment we do today is a function of our not having to work in the fields any more. A hundred years ago, that was the norm, and popular culture consisted of an occasional movie or listening to the radio. The main focus was on making a living and surviving. Having a wide…

This review must have been written by a Scientologist.

Hordes.

Sadly, there won't be much to see before the Epoch of Reionization, so that's probably as far back as we'll ever be able to see. Pretty cool stuff, though.

Warped galaxies are extremely common in the visible universe, usually getting their shape from a close encounter with another galaxy. Guess we're not as unique as we thought.

What? No Lucifer's Hammer? It's the most cinematic book I've ever read, and that's saying something.

I guess I should have read the manual. I've had my MacBook for two years and didn't know about Quick Look until today. It's awesome! Thanks, guys.

I've been tornado chasing, and saw a twister form about a half-mile from our position in the Texas panhandle. If the movie can convey a tenth of the awe I felt that day, it can't miss.

I wonder if Fixing The Sky covers HAARP, which some people - OK, this guy: [www.haarp.net] - think may be some kind of secret government installation built to control the weather, or at least modify it for nefarious means. I'm actually more worried about a TSA agent touching my junk.

Egad - I was wrong. "View of Toledo" is an El Greco. You can kind of see the resemblance: [en.wikipedia.org]

The name of the artwork in question is "View of Toledo," not "Starry Night," although the mistake is now so widespread it has passed into common usage. So I've decided to arbitrarily rename the Internet "Tubeland."